The Bloating Book

Your abdomen is not a gas balloon, and the usual suspect is usually not the culprit.

You finish a meal and your waistband changes size. By evening you look pregnant. You have cut out bread, then dairy, then onions, and the list of safe foods keeps shrinking while the bloating carries on regardless.

This book explains what is actually happening when your stomach swells, which is rarely the simple build-up of gas most people picture. It covers the causes worth taking seriously, the ones that get blamed unfairly, and why two people with identical symptoms can need completely different answers.

Food matters here without becoming the whole story. There is no elimination protocol to follow, because a restriction with no route back out of it tends to cost more than it returns.

It is also honest about the part nobody writes down: that a swollen stomach is a physical symptom and a distressing one, and that flatness was never the goal worth aiming at.

Book Two of The Gut Health Series. Clear on the causes, careful about the warning signs, and free of another list of foods to fear.